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Numsgil:
I don't think you can play online with a cracked copy, since the accounts go through battle.net 2.0, which basically links your keycode to your character.  The same system is in use for WoW, where they make all their money by charging people who want to play, so I think it's pretty hack-proof.  But if you can get it working more power to you :)

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--- Quote from: bacillus on August 19, 2010, 02:30:26 AM ---Ah, the Zergling/Zealot/random tiny creature rush. Dead in 12 seconds flat. Starcraft 2 like that as well?
I know somebody who apparently has a cracked version with a few bugs-he'll pass it over once the glitches are sorted.

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So long as you scout it out (it's standard to send a probe/drone/SCV (resource gatherer.  Non combat) in the first minute or so), you can mass marines/zerglings/zealots (the basic combat unit) to stop it.  As long as you don't die you will probably win if they heavily committed to it.

But yeah, if you aren't super familiar with multiplayer RTSs, you will probably get destroyed in a proper multiplayer match.  They have a "practice" league, though, that plays on a slower speed and has destroyable rocks in places to prevent rushes like that.

Botsareus:
Numsgil, how good is security on Star Craft 2? Will my AVGfree be good enough? I basically gave up on Multiplayer online games after I got hacked in Cosmic Rift...

Numsgil:
Well, I think whoever you're playing against can see your IP address if they looked for it (I don't think the game is relayed through battle.net.  I think it just operates as a matchmaking service).  And I guess theoretically, if Blizzard wasn't careful, there might be ways to overflow buffers and inject code.  So it's probably not cleared for use on computers in the CIA or anything.  But realistically, no, there aren't any security issues to worry about.  You aren't downloading executable code.  You're just playing a game, which is talking with another game. 

Actually I don't know of any security issues with any games ever.  So the above is purely theoretical.  You just generally don't get hacked through a game.  The worst that could happen is you piss off some l33t hacker somewhere and they get your IP and do things to you using that.  Like the original Windows XP, out of box, could have visible messages sent to it if you knew the IP.  But they fixed that really quick (now you have to enable it explicitly).

If you have any sort of modern OS, most of the stupid things hackers can do with an IP won't work, anyway.  There's still a DoS attack, I guess.  Not sure if it would work on a consumer PC behind a router.  But it's comparatively expensive since you need lots of computers and lots of bandwidth to do that.  They can't log in to your computer or anything, unless you've specifically enabled your router and OS to allow remote connection.  Which you probably haven't.  And even then, just pick some half decent passwords and you're fine.

People do get their battle.net accounts hacked from time to time, but that's because they fall for some sort of phishing and give out their password and account.  If you're careful to not give the password to spoof sites you're fine.

So short answer: no.

Prsn828:

--- Quote from: Botsareus on August 20, 2010, 01:52:47 PM ---Numsgil, how good is security on Star Craft 2? Will my AVGfree be good enough? I basically gave up on Multiplayer online games after I got hacked in Cosmic Rift...

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As Numsgil said, you likely won't be getting hacked unless you opened up a path for the hacker yourself.
I expect (though this is purely speculation) that Blizzard probably also has protections built into the game to prevent malicious alterations from playing online.

That being said, I am a relative newb at starcraft, so I wouldn't take my word on it.

On another note, does anyone else find it pretty daunting to consider playing online after just having gotten used to playing from the campaign?
Faster gameplay, more building and unit options, more challenging opponents, and no saving/pausing/redos.  I feel like I'm in a newb nightmare just thinking about it...

Any suggestions?
Should I do the challenges (the easy ones) before going into online play, or train against the computer?
It seems so intimidating to me right now... Having a defensive nature sucks   :(

Panda:
I have learned from playing online RTS that I had no chance against a lot of people, and tried, either finding somebody with the same ability of mine, or just play offline against the AI, which sometimes is difficult in itself.

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